Informational non-equilibrium concentration

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Autori principali: Hsieh, Chung-Yun, Stratton, Benjamin, Weng, Hao-Cheng, Scarani, Valerio
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Pubblicazione: 2024
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author Hsieh, Chung-Yun
Stratton, Benjamin
Weng, Hao-Cheng
Scarani, Valerio
author_facet Hsieh, Chung-Yun
Stratton, Benjamin
Weng, Hao-Cheng
Scarani, Valerio
contents Informational contributions to thermodynamics can be studied in isolation by considering systems with fully-degenerate Hamiltonians. In this regime, being in non-equilibrium -- termed informational non-equilibrium -- provides thermodynamic resources, such as extractable work, solely from the information content. The usefulness of informational non-equilibrium creates an incentive to obtain more of it, motivating the question of how to concentrate it: can we increase the local informational non-equilibrium of a product state $ρ\otimesρ$ under a global closed system (unitary) evolution? We fully solve this problem analytically, showing that it is impossible for two-qubits, and it is always possible to find states achieving this in higher dimensions. Specifically for two-qutrits, we find that there is a single unitary achieving optimal concentration for every state, for which we uncover a Mepmba-like effect. We further discuss the notion of bound resources in this framework, initial global correlations' ability to activate concentration, and applications to concentrating purity and intrinsic randomness.
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Hsieh, Chung-Yun
Stratton, Benjamin
Weng, Hao-Cheng
Scarani, Valerio
Quantum Physics
Informational contributions to thermodynamics can be studied in isolation by considering systems with fully-degenerate Hamiltonians. In this regime, being in non-equilibrium -- termed informational non-equilibrium -- provides thermodynamic resources, such as extractable work, solely from the information content. The usefulness of informational non-equilibrium creates an incentive to obtain more of it, motivating the question of how to concentrate it: can we increase the local informational non-equilibrium of a product state $ρ\otimesρ$ under a global closed system (unitary) evolution? We fully solve this problem analytically, showing that it is impossible for two-qubits, and it is always possible to find states achieving this in higher dimensions. Specifically for two-qutrits, we find that there is a single unitary achieving optimal concentration for every state, for which we uncover a Mepmba-like effect. We further discuss the notion of bound resources in this framework, initial global correlations' ability to activate concentration, and applications to concentrating purity and intrinsic randomness.
title Informational non-equilibrium concentration
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.12759